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If you don’t work it hard it’s a waste of money…

At 6.30 this morning I enter through the doors of Lifestyle Fitness, that is normally when my alarm goes off in the morning. But if you are scheduled to see the most important music show of the year (the kindergarten show) you do what you have to do and you drag your ass to the gym and work hard for every single nickel. But I did not expect what Jonathan had in mind for us…legs!!!

We went outside and started out with lunges with a curl to press, sprints, another set of curl to press, squat jumps and a fast run around the cul-de-sac. I could not believe it, this was going to be my 4th day of legs including the fast run I did yesterday but I figured if I wasn’t going to work it hard it was going to be a waste of money and time (in bed) lol.

Back inside Jonathan had a change of heart and decided to focus on upper body, this to my relief and we carried on pushing the shoulders. With only three of us the first circuit was only two exercises, after every set I bumped the weight up but kept the amount of reps the same. 15 shoulder press in an inclined bench and 15 single arm rows.

When the third set was over we carried on working the next circuit with two exercises but this time I kept the 15 pounds for the 15 chest flies followed by pull ups till exhaustion. Jonathan alway says not to have a number in your head but it is very hard not to and if I have a number I always try to finish with an extra couple of reps (if I have it left in me).

The next exercise we split into 3 movements, we started by doing 10 “Clean” of a clean and jerk and while the person I was working with was doing her set I rested out. The second movement was 10 “jerk” also done three times through and the last move was to complete the “clean and Jerk” in one motion.

This amazing workout was coming to an end but before I had to rush home to send the kids off to school we finished out on 15 shoulder raises from a wall sit. And let me tell you if you are fed up with doing crunches this is a fantastic compliment of working the abs. Especially after all the stabilizing the core had to do during the heavy clean and jerks. This was followed by shoulder raises to the sides and with a twist using the dumbbell from a push up position.

When I stepped outside I was completely drenched and that in it self is a token of a kick ass workout!